Institute for Biblical & Scientific Studies

New Testament:
Oxyrhynchus Papyri

In 1897 B.P. Grenfell, Hunt and Hogarth started excavating for papyri in
Egypt. At Oxyrhynchus they dug for 13 seasons to 1909. They discovered thousands
of Greek texts including fragments of the Gospels, Acts, Pauline Epistles,
General Epistles, and Revelation. It was the village dumps where they found
baskets full of papyri. So far 3875 documents have been published
in the series entitled Oxyrhynchus Papyri.